Who searched for Flight 370?

Search for MH370 is RESTARTED by Australian air safety inspectors – more than eight years after the plane disappeared. Australian air safety investigators have renewed their search for Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 after a British aerospace engineer released a report claiming he had pinpointed its exact location.

How much did it cost to search for Flight 370?

The search is estimated to have cost some 200 million Australian dollars ($151 million), according to Australia’s minister for infrastructure and transport, Darren Chester. Most of the funds were provided by the Malaysian government. It has been the most expensive search for a missing plane in history.

Where was MH370 meant to land?

Flight MH370, operated on the B777-200 aircraft, departed Kuala Lumpur at 12.41am on 8 March 2014. MH370 was expected to land in Beijing at 6.30am the same day. The flight was carrying a total number of 227 passengers (including 2 infants), 12 crew members.

What has happened to the search for Flight 370?

Based on further analysis of Flight 370’s satellite communications, detailed in an ATSB report published 8 October, the priority search area for the underwater search was shifted south from the area identified in June. On 18 October, Fugro Discovery departed Perth to join the search.

What can we learn from the seafloor search for Flight 370?

The seafloor sonar data obtained during the underwater search for Flight 370 gives scientists an unusually-large section of deep-ocean seafloor mapped at high resolution; most seafloor bathymetric data at such high resolution covers either a small area or shallower seafloor on continental shelves.

Is there an underwater search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?

Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 8 October 2014. ^ “Phoenix Contracted to Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370”. Ocean News and Technology. 25 September 2014. Retrieved 8 October 2014. ^ Truss, Warren (6 August 2014). “Contractor Announced for MH370 Underwater Search”. Joint Agency Coordination Centre. Retrieved 31 July 2015.

What have we learned from the search for flight MH370?

^ “One thing we’ve learned in the search for Flight MH370 – the world’s oceans are awash in vortexes of plastic trash”. National Post. Associated Press. 31 March 2014. Retrieved 11 May 2014. ^ “Flight MH370: ‘Objects spotted’ in new search area” (text & images).